Tea party activists complain that Republican Party has abandoned them

12:53 PM,
May 7, 2013

Written by

Beth Murphy

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The idea that two free-market-believing billionaire brothers want to buy a big media company has been troubling for a number of journalists.

But, as Larry Bell, points out at Forbes.com, their problem isn't that the Koch brothers are rich or that they're businessmen. No, their beef is the brothers' philosophy of free enterprise and limited government, basic and long-held American tenets that now are derisively called "right-wing ideology." ...